{"id":2096,"date":"2006-11-02T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2006-11-02T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T14:59:00","slug":"nigeria-gets-new-islamic-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigeria-gets-new-islamic-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria gets new Islamic leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42269000\/jpg\/_42269424_newsultan203.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42269000\/jpg\/_42269424_newsultan203.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The Muslims in Nigeria have quickly replaced Sultan Mohammadu Maccido who was killed in a plane crash Sunday morning.<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6109118.stm\">BBC<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nigeria gets new Islamic leader<br \/>\nThe new Sultan served as a peacekeeper in Sierra Leone<br \/>\nA new Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria&#8217;s 70m Muslims, has been announced.<br \/>\nColonel Muhammadu Sada Abubakar, 53, is the brother of Sultan Mohammadu Maccido, who was killed in a plane crash on Sunday, along with 95 others.<br \/>\nCol Abubakar had been serving as Nigeria&#8217;s military attache to Pakistan.<br \/>\nLike all sultans, Col Abubakar is descended from Uthman Dan Fodio, who led a 19th Century jihad to spread Islam across northern Nigeria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find the last statement very interesting. Pray for Nigeria. Pray for peace between the Christians and Muslims and pray that God&#8217;s love will be shown to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslims in Nigeria have quickly replaced Sultan Mohammadu Maccido who was killed in a plane crash Sunday morning. From the BBC: Nigeria gets new Islamic leader The new Sultan served as a peacekeeper in Sierra Leone A new Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria&#8217;s 70m Muslims, has been announced. Colonel Muhammadu Sada &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigeria-gets-new-islamic-leader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigeria gets new Islamic leader<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}